Tour Scotland Video Tossing The Caber Highland Games Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of tossing the Caber at the Highland Games at Robbie's Park, Scotland Terrace, Newburgh, on ancestry visit to Fife, Scotland. The caber toss is a traditional Scottish athletic event in which competitors toss a large tapered pole called a " caber ".It is usually 19 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds. The caber derives from the Gaelic word " cabar " or " kaber " which refers to a wooden beam. It is said to have developed from the need for highlanders from Scottish Clans to toss logs across narrow streams or chasms in order to cross them

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